*Book Recommendation and Suggestions*

If you won't learn portion control and cost per serving from ME, you can learn it here: 5 Meals for $5--How to Serve 5 People 5 Meals for $5-8 (or less). Here's another one titled $3 Meals--Feed Your Family Delicious, Nutritious meals for Less Than the Cost of a Gallon of Milk. Both of these were written this year, so the economy was taken into consideration.

I haven't personally read these books, but Amazon told me all I needed to know--they're portion control and cost per serving books with recipes. Other reading suggestions include Dining on a Dime, and 100 Meals for $5 or Less--be warned that these two were written BEFORE the economic slump and resulting inflation, so $5 may not go as far as it did at the time of their writing.